What meanest thou, O sleeper?

What meanest thou, O sleeper?

‘But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.’ 

Jonah 1:5–6

Suggested Further Reading: 

Ezekiel 33:1–11

Men can be so careless about the ruin of men’s souls. Let us hear the cry of ‘Fire! fire!’ in the streets, and our heart is all in trepidation lest some poor creature should be burned alive; but we read of hell, and of the wrath to come, and seldom do our hearts palpitate with any compassionate trembling and fear. 

If we are on board a vessel, and the shrill cry is heard, ‘Man overboard!’ whoever hears of a passenger wrapping his overcoat around him, and lying down upon a seat to contemplate the exertions of others? But in the church, when we hear of thousands of sinners sinking in the floods of ruin, we behold professed Christians wrapping themselves up in their own security, and calmly looking upon the labours of others, but not even lifting a finger to do any part of the work themselves.

 If we heard tomorrow in our streets the awful cry, more terrible than fire, the cry of ‘Bread! bread! bread!’ and saw starving women lifting up their perishing children, would we not empty out our stores? Who among us would not spend our substance to let the poor ravenous creatures satisfy the pangs of hunger? And yet, here is the world perishing for lack of knowledge. 

Here we have them at our doors crying for the bread of heaven, and how many there are that hoard their substance for avarice, give their time to vanity, devote their talents to self-aggrandisement, and centre their thoughts only on the world or the flesh! Oh! could you once see with your eyes a soul sinking into hell, it would be such a spectacle that you would work night and day, and count your life too short and your hours too few for the plucking of brands from the burning.

For meditation: 

What a terrible thing it is to leave someone to die in their sin. What a tremendous thing it is to help them find the Saviour 

(James 5:20; Jude 23).

Sermon no. 469

14 September (1862)

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PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 

Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.

Amen.

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An appeal to sinners

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An appeal to sinners

“This man receiveth sinners.” 

Luke 15:2

Suggested Further Reading: 

Ephesians 1:3-8

Allow us just to amplify that word: “this man receiveth sinners.” 

Now, by that we understand that he receives sinners to all the benefits which he has purchased for them. If there be a fountain, he receives sinners to wash them in it; if there be medicine for the soul, he receives sinners to heal their diseases; if there be a house for the sick, an hospital, a home for the dying, he receives such into that retreat of mercy. 

All that he has of love, all that he has of mercy, all that he has of atonement, all that he has of sanctification, all that he has of righteousness—to all these he receives the sinner. Yea, more; not content with taking him to his house, he receives him to his heart. He takes the black and filthy sinner, and having washed him—“There,” he says, “thou art my beloved; my desire is towards thee.” 

And to consummate the whole, at last he receives the saints to heaven. Saints, I said, but I meant those who were sinners, for none can be saints truly, but those who once were sinners, and have been washed in the blood of Christ, and made white through the sacrifice of the lamb.

 Observe it then, beloved, that in receiving sinners we mean the whole of salvation; and this word in my text, “Christ receiveth sinners,” grasps in the whole of the covenant. He receives them to the joys of paradise, to the bliss of the beatified, to the songs of the glorified, to an eternity of happiness for ever. 

“This man receiveth sinners;” and I dwell with special emphasis on this point,—he receives none else. He will have none else to be saved but those who know themselves to be sinners.

For meditation: 

Contrast whom Christ receives with all that they receive in him in return (Luke 15:20-24). Are you one of them?

Sermon no. 219

14 September (1856)

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PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 

Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.

Amen.

  "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF

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The condescension of Christ

The condescension of Christ

“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” 

2 Corinthians 8:9

Suggested Further Reading:

 Mark 15:16-39

Our Lord Jesus might have said in all his sorrows, “I have known better days than these.” When he was tempted of the devil in the wilderness, it must have been hard for him to have restrained himself from dashing the devil into pieces.

If I had been the Son of God, feeling as I do now, if that devil had tempted me I should have dashed him into the nethermost hell, in the twinkling of an eye! And then conceive the patience our Lord must have had, standing on the pinnacle of the temple, when the devil said, “Fall down and worship me.”

He would not touch him, the vile deceiver, but let him do what he pleased.Oh! What might of misery and love there must have been in the Saviour’s heart when he was spat upon by the men he had created; when the eyes he himself had filled with vision, looked on him with scorn, and when the tongues, to which he himself had given utterance, hissed and blasphemed him! Oh, my friends, if the Saviour had felt as we do, and I doubt not he did feel in some measure as we do—only by great patience he curbed himself—he might have swept them all away; and, as they said, he might have come down from the cross, and delivered himself, and destroyed them utterly.

It was mighty patience that could bear to tread this world beneath his feet, and not to crush it, when it so ill-treated its Redeemer.You marvel at the patience which restrained him; you marvel also at the poverty he must have felt, the poverty of spirit, when they rebuked him and he reviled them not again; when they scoffed at him, and yet he said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” He had seen brighter days; that made his misery more bitter, and his poverty more poor.

For meditation:

 In the garden Jesus could have used his power to call twelve legions of angels to his rescue
(Matthew 26:53),
but instead he employed it to heal the ear of one of his enemies (Luke 22:51).

 On the cross he could have used his power to save himself, but instead he continued to employ it to save others—his enemies, including us (Romans 5:10).

Sermon no. 151

13 September (1857)

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PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 

Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.

Amen.

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